What options faced American officials in 1945 regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

Question(s): What options faced American officials in 1945 regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

 The Demoralization of Free China, 1943-1944

 

* “The Honan Famine” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 166-178

* “Doomed Men, The Chinese Army” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby Thunder out of China, 132-141

– Finish Cold Nights

 

April 6: Film: “China in War and Revolution”

* Drafted to the Kobe Shipyards”, “the War Effort” in Under the Black Umbrella, 123-138

* “Volunteer and “Human Torpedo” Japan at War, 306-319

– Factories of Death, 239-311

 

 

The Japanese Home Front and the Struggle Over Ending the War

 

*“Thank God for the Atom Bomb” in Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, 1-28

-Start Hiroshima

 

The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan

*“Mansei” in Under the Black Umbrella, 139-147

*“Shattered Lives” in John Dower Embracing Defeat 48-64

*“Reversals of Fortune” in Japan at War, 407-419

*Matthew Allen, “Wolves at the Back Door: Remembering the Kumejima Massacres,” in Islands of Discontent, 39-64

– Continue reading Hiroshima

 

Surrender, Guilt and the American Occupation of Japan

 

– Finish Hiroshima

 

Ending One War and Beginning Another in East Asia

* Hideo Kobayashi, “The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan’s Wartime Empire” in Japan’s Wartime Empire, 324-334

– Factories of Death, 313-361

*“Victory as Defeat” in Yeh Wen-hsin, ed. Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press) 2000

*“Victory and Civil War” in Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China, 279-297